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Saturday / November 23.

Despite Obstacles, Lavin Recruiting Hard

For the second year in a row, Steve Lavin and St. John’s are conducting perhaps the most unique recruiting search of any Division 1 basketball program in the nation.

A year ago, Lavin inherited a club with 10 seniors and had the unenviable burden of trying to fill nearly an entire roster with new players.

Lavin and his staff hit the road and landed a nine-man recruiting class ranked among the Top 3 nationally, but three recruits — JaKarr Sampson, Norvel Pelle and Amir Garrett — were ruled academically ineligible by the NCAA in September. (Garrett has since qualified and joined the team.)

St. John’s also lost junior college point guard Nurideen Lindsey, who first announced he would transfer to Arkansas and has now decided on Rider.

Click here to read the full story at FiveStarBasketball.com.

**And check out the St. John’s “Big Board” here.

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